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spider-mario 84 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: LuaJIT 3.0 proposed syntax extensions

Same in Perl, hence the good old pattern:

    open my $fh, '<', 'input.txt' or die;

codesnik 84 days ago [–]

yes, ruby inherited this from perl, though 'or' has lower precedence than 'and' in perl, and they're equal in ruby. Which sounds like something going to cause mistakes, but I yet to see 'and' and 'or' together in the same expression in ruby.

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